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Re:Next up:Delusion_ wrote:
Next up:
the Lisa II
sorry, already done. The Lisa II (or Lisa 2 or Mac XL) was the follow on to the original Lisa. It replaced the Lisa's dual 5.25-inch "Twiggy" floppies with a single 400KB 3.5-inch floppy and came bundled with a Macintosh emulation program (MacWorks XL: basically Mac ROM code adapted to run on the Lisa hardware). It was released around the same time as the original Mac and cost slightly more, but had a larger display, hard disk drive, expandable memory (up to 2MB) and an internal I/O expansion bus. The processor was slower (6MHz for the Lisa vs. 8MHz for the Macintosh) but there was a custom memory protection/memory management chip that was, unfortunately, never used in Macintosh mode.
What you're looking for is the (dreaded) Lisa -
Re:"evolution of user-centric design"?
The only feature of IE 7 that strikes me as a nice piece of user interface is the clear and graphical method of creating a new tab.
That's such an interesting throwback of a UI idea. Way back in the original MacOS, before it had a true heirachical file system, each disk had an empty folder named "Empty Folder" at the root level. To make a new folder, you would select Empty Folder and rename it. A new Empty Folder would then appear to replace the renamed one.
Obviously, the Empty Folder didn't last long. Aside from the problems introduced with a hierachical file system (every folder and sub-folder would need its own Emtpy Folder?), the interface folks quickly realized that using a menu or keyboard combo was much more consistent with the rest of the OS. Conflating a "rename" or "select" action with a "create new" action was just confusing. I wonder how long until Microsoft re-learns the same lesson? -
Re:Interesting..
The old Macintoshes had 9" monochrome CRTs (which put them well under 9" of course). They were quite usable.
This thing seems to be more in line with the Mac than a notebook or PDA. Transportable and designed for business. No HDD (stock) either
...which of course makes me wonder why it's so hard to make a cheap, cheap computer.
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Retro
It's only misleading if you don't assume it has to attach to the Mac somehow. It doesn't claim to be a Bluetooth or WiFi network-attached hard drive. Also, one of the USB ports is a USB B port, so that one could only be used one way: to attach to the computer.
But then they could have designed a proprietary harness port and a special cable with a connector for that port on one end and USB and Firewire on the other if you'd preferred. It would raise the price though.
I like how its under-the-computer design resembles Mac hard drives of old.
But someone's going to have to get one, open it up, and see if it is possible to swap in normal internal drives and what type of drive it uses, e.g. serial or parallel ATA, desktop or laptop. -
Nothing changesCompare this screenshot of Paint.NET with this screenshot of a more famous program. From 1984.
Amazing. Nothing changes.
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Apple Personal Modem lives again!
How history repeats - the apple personal modem 1200 (other site) plugged into the wall also, and connected your computer to the outside world. Only this time, it's smaller, it's wireless, has audio out, and is 45,000 times faster.
my 1000th post! -
Re:Interesting, but...This was pretty cool
Some guy took the guts of a G4 cube and put it in a Color Classic
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Done before, and better?
Hmm, not trying to put this guy down or anything, but Mac-to-PC total conversions have been done better. Here's a step-by-step of one from a couple years ago.
For those who'd like to run a newer Mac in an all-in-one form factor, it's apparently pretty straightforward to drop a cube straight into a Color Classic (hmmm, two obsolete systems in one!) Alternatively, it'd be a pretty neat project to put together one of these with say the guts of a 12" PowerBook.
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Re:Not According to Apple
Well, then they changed it. Waaaay back in 1984, it was AppleTalk, complete with its own cabling system and connectors. At some point, it got renamed to LocalTalk. At some much later point, it was renamed back to AppleTalk and prepended to Filing Protocol. They probably dropped the "Talk" relatively recently because it didn't add anything to the name.
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Re:OT: VMware alternativeOn Mac hardware, there'd be an excellent free alternative: Mac-on-Linux.
(Allows you to tun your Mac OS 9 on top of Linux PPC -- similar to OS X's Classic environment. IIUC, Plex86 would do the same for Wintel... right? Given the potential audience, I never quite understood why there isn't a Win-on-Linux. Is it that much harder?)
Which leaves the question, is there anything like knoppix for the PowerPC?
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Re:I totally agree
The name is generic. Like "Office", which was used to describe office suites during the eighties well before Microsoft adopted the name for their suite.
I don't seem to remember any (maybe one or two). AppleWorks, BeagleWorks, Microsoft Works, Claris Works. Microsoft Office apparently comes from Apple's vision of the Macintosh Office. A great way to get into the corporate market, this is exactly the kind of enabling software that Office is to support this setup.
It's reasonable to say that the two products have the same derivation for the name, rather than one being derived from the other.
Adobe 'invented' the Illustrator name. Everyone else used [blah]Draw. Illustrator is a drawing program, as opposed to a paint program. 'Illustration' as category of graphics packages doesn't exist (vector based graphics packages are drawing programs, raster based graphics packages are painting programs).
No one would have a problem with KDraw, and IMO it's a much better name. MacDraw, Corel Draw, etc. KIllustrator is obviously following Illustrator, and my Mom, who uses Illustrator a lot, would get fooled ("oh, this is the Linux version of Illustrator", assuming that I explained Linux & KDE to her).
